Word: prohibitive
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...parallel to, although not wholly caused by, the profusion and unrepresentative character of their laws. For this reason they must be dealt with cautiously in most administrative matters, and especially in those which are sumptuary. But they are by now so thoroughly disgusted with the immediate effects of prohibition, and so willing to eschew the saloon if a satisfactory alternative presents itself, that the framing of wise liquor legislation is a matter or profound social importance. That legislation must set at the beginning a far frontier of government control upon which no one will dare to encroach; specifically, it should...
...Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members-elect, meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated, from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
...committee rooms. In 1924, less from conviction of right than from a desire to wash its hands of a troublesome question, it submitted child labor to the States in the form of a Constitutional Amendment. If ratified by 36 States, the Amendment would empower Congress to "limit, regulate and prohibit" the employment of persons under...
...substitute for the Administration's oil control plan, which a rebellious Congress had rejected, the committee voted to adopt the Connally "hot oil" amendment empowering the President to prohibit interstate transportation of oil or oil products produced in violation of any state...
...refer to your article of May 1, entitled "No More Nicking," in which you state that "Last week New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman signed a bill which made his State the first to prohibit the nicking of horse's tails...